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34TH YEAH, 24
LONGSHOREMEN GET 31C HOUR INCREASE
Miami’s 500 odd dock workers
of Local 1416, International
Longshoremen Ass’n are hap
pily celebrating a 31-cent an hou:
increase in pay and other bene
fits. The increase was agreed or
last week in New Orleans and
sets the pattern for Florida and
other Gulf and South Atlantic
ports.
Judge Henderson, president of
Local 1416 and an international
vice president of the union, said
the major ports affected by the
agreement are Wilmington, N.C.;
Charleston, S.C.; Savannah, Ga.;
Jacksonville, Miami, Port Ever
glades and Tampa, Fla.
Longshoremen will get an
eight-cent an hour increase in
pay and 23 cent? an hour in im
proved vacation, welfare and
pen:ion benefits. The increase is
retroactive to Oct. 1.
Longshoremen struck at all Gulf
and Atlantic coast .ports Nov. 15.
The government obtained an in
junction under the Taft-Hartley
law nine days later, ordering the
longshoremen back to work.
Base pay for stevedores in the
union’s South Atlantic district
was $2.34 hourly under the old
contract. Under terms of the new
contract, the base pay will be
$2.42 hourly with an additional 23
cents going into a new welfare
and pension fund-
Injunction Against
Juvenile Curfew Filed
Miami’s juvenile curfew law
lasted only three days before it
was lifted by court order Tues
day as opposers attacked it as
“un-American.”
Circuit Judge George Holt
granted a temporary injunction
against the City of Miami from
enforcing the law,
While the injuction is in effect,
Judge Holt will hear arguments
on the law’s constitutionality, then
rule whether it should be enforc
ed or Invalidated.
\j§i|lmSl HK
Mrs. Zola Jiles Sullivan wa s
among local teachers elevated to
principal last week. Mrs. Sulli
van received her B.S. and M. S.
degrees from Florida A and M
Univer:ity. She has done
s'udy at the University of Mich
igan. Before ccm : .n.'g to Miami
she served on the faculty of Fla.
A and M. She is presently teach
er of special education at Bunche
Park Elementary School.
The suit attacking the ordi
nance, adopted Jan. 2 by the Mi
ami City Commirsion, was filed
by Robert F. Riley, Dade County
school trustee, in th£ name of his
14-year-old son, Robert, Jr.
In his 10-page attack, and re
quest for the injunction, Riley
contended the curfew law usurped
parental functions, was illegal,
gave unconstitutional powers to
•police and didn’t define when juv
eniles under 17 would be in vio
lation.
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1957
7 YOUTHS ADMIT
26 mourns
Five juveniles and two young
men are reported by Sheriff Tom
Kelly as being responsible for 26
recent burglaries of service sta
tions and stores in Northwest
Miami and Dade County.
Kelly said two of the suspects.
Theodore Johnson, 2560 NW
155th terr., and Nathaniel Fultcn,
1615 NW 27th ave., had admitted
he break-ins. Both are 18.
The sheriff said Johnson and
Tultcn implicated five other boy:
snging in age from 15 to 17, who
have b:en turned over to juvenile
authorities.
The investigation was made by
Deputies Earl Corlew and Roy
Lcngbottcm, in cooperation with
Opa Locka police.
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PAMU CLINICIANS—The three men
above—one of whom, Jack White, is a
graduate of Florida A and M University—
will play key roles in the 28th annual
meeting and 31st annual clinic of the Fla.
A and M University Clinical Association
which will be held February 12-14. They
are, left to right, John B. Johnson, M.D.,
Walter Reuther Slams
Congress on Civil Rights
WASHINGTON Walter Reu
ther, president of the Auto Work
ers Union, blasted Congress
Thursday cn its “do nothing rec
ord” on civil rights.
He said “only Congress has
failed to act” at a time when
states, communities and labor
unions are making progress in the
elimination of discrimination bas
ed on color, religion and race.
Reuther was one of another
parade of witnesse: presenting
sharply conflicting views before
a House Judiciary subcommittee
cn proposals for civil rights leg
islation.
Plans to end the hearing Thurs
day were abandoned by Chairman
Celler (D-NY), who said the ses
SIXTEEN PAGES— PRICE 10 CENTS
head, department of medicine, Howard
University School of Medicine; Dr. Jack
WTiite, assistant professor of surgery and
director of the cancer research project at
Howard University,, and Noah R. Calhoun,
D.D.S., chief, dental service and oral sur
geon, Veterans Administration Hoepital,
Tuskegee, Ala.
s:ons would be continued next
week despite strenuous opposition
of committee Republicans.
Pre.ident Eisenhower has pro
posed a four-point program call
ing for a civil rights commission,
establishment of a new civi
rights division in the Justice De
partment, and new 7 laws to pro
tect voting rights and puni-h civil
discriminations.
r Reuther said that “the prospect
for meaningful civil rights legis
lation! now seems “better than in
previous years.”
He attributed this to a keener
public awareness of what he said
were filibustering and delaying
tactics practiced by civil rights
foes to kill such legislation in pre
vious years.
ONE DEAD; ONE CRITICAL
AFTER DUEL OVER WOMAN
FORUM SPEAKER
Miss Gloria M. Bravnon, in
structor in modern languages at
Booker T. Washington High School
will deliver the keynote address
at the King of Clubs Forum, Sun
iay, Feb. 10 at 3:45 pm. at the
\ft. Zion Baptist Church. She will
discu-s the topic “One World.”
Miss Braynon is well qualified
to explore this current question
both from the standpoint of edu
cational and travel experiences.
Miss Braynon graduated from
ITW in 1952. She entered Talla
l:,ra College and studied modern
’anguages. In 1955 she attended
’he Univedsity of Paris in order
to study French. She graduated
from Talladega in 1956. In the
meantime, she had traveled ex
tensively in England, Holland,
Trane?, Switzerland, Italy and
other point* on the European con
‘inent. In addition she has visited
Rico and the Island of
Martinique in this hemiphere.
At the opening of the Fall term
1956-57 she was employed to
teach modern languages at her
high school alma mater.
The Booker T. Washington
chorus will furnish music.
ILIA OK AFTU
OHUTIOH
NEW YORK (ANP) —.Song
stress Ella Fitzgerald underwent
an operation in a New York hos
pital last Thursday and doctors
reported her to be in satisfactory
condition.
A hospital spokesman said the
singer was operated on for "an
aibcess in the region of the ap
continued on page 16
OIDtST FIOKIDA
miDim HAS
BIKTHDAY
Mrs. Patsy Evans, Florida’s old
est resident, celebrated her 111th
birthday Monday at her daugh
ter's home at 1732 NW 6th ct.
Her daughter is 75-year-old Mrs.
Annie Lee Butler.
Despite her 111 years Mrs
Evans is active. She is an out
patient a,t the geriatric clinic of
ackson Memorial Hospital. She
makes weekly visits to the clinic
vhere a study is being made un
der Dr. Samuel Gertman on old
ige and its ailments.
Mrs. Evans, a deeply, religious
woman, attributes her long life
*c “the help of Jesus.”
Dr. Gertman said. “We have
!“ound that old folks with a genu
ine religious feeling receive some
kind of support that is very val*
uable to them:”
EARTHA KITT
LUNCHES
WITH NEHRU
NEW DELHl—Kittinirh Earths
Kitt. the sultry songtress with the
hourglass figure, seems to have
her way with world personalities.
Todav she will be entertained
at lunch by Prime Minister
Nahru. A government spokesmar
said other ?ue-ts, mostly Indian
officials, also would attend.
The sultry American singer.
Hires Cop to Kill Wife
TOLEDO, Ohio —
“Wait until my wife finds out,’'
said 55-ycar-old Junius Daniels
in a Detroit jail.
His wife, Julia, 38, at her home
in Toledo found out and she
wasn’t plea;ed.
Detroit police said Daniels
plotted to have her murdered, but
made the mbtake of asking a cop
to do the jcb.
Daniels was held by Detroit
authorities on the charge of “Con
si; iracy to commit murder.”
This is the way, according to
Detroit police, he planned hi.>
wife’s execution:
(He was going to smuggle a gun
man into their home and When
everyone had left the gunman was
to do his wife in.
Daniels went to Detroit to hire
the killer and called on Frank
Williams, explaining his mission.
One man is dead and another is
in Jackson Memorial Hospital
following a gun duel Monday
night at 1026 NW Ist court.
Willie Howard, of that address
died at Jackson Memorial Hos
pital Wednesday niiht from guzv*
hot wounds in the chest and leg.
The wounds were inflicted by
Walter Mackey, 43, of 15625 NW
156th st., who was struck in the
back by bullets.
Howard is said to have learned
that his wife, Eliza, was having
an affair with Mackey and phoned
him about it. The two argued
over the phone and promised to
settle their differences the next
time they met
Mackey met Howard on First
court Monday evening and How
ard threatened him with a pistol.
Mackey drew his pistol and fired
five shots at Howard hitting him
three times. Howard fell wounded
but from the ground fired five
shots at Mackey.
Police har termed Howard’s
death justifiable homicide, but
an inquest will be held. Mackey
faces ten years if the justifiable
homicide charge doesn’t stick.
Funeral services for Howard
'ill be held at Francis Funeral
Home Friday night, after which
'he body will be shipp:d to Ar
lington, Ga., for burial. He is
virvived by a wife, one sister and
five brothers.
Mackey’s condition was report
ed as crtical Thursday night,
due here tonight on a world tour,
wrote ahead to ask the American
Embassy about, her chances of
meeting Nehru. The Embassy re
’ayed the request to the Foreign
Office, and the luncheon invitation
followed.
Mr. Williams said he wasn’t the
nrtsu, hut could find one for Dan
iels.
Instead, Williams went to po
lice and returned with Patrolman
Thomas Taylor in plain clothes.
Daniels outlined his plans, of
fering S4OO on a pay-as-you-go
basis’ for the job. He gave Taylor
S2O saying the remainder would
be paid when he collected a
double indemnity insur
ance policy on his wife. Mrs. Dan
iels, her hu.band said, had also
recently picked up S4OO and own
ed two houses.
It wac 1 then Patrolman Taylor
revealed his identity to the sur
prised Daniels.
Mrs. Daniels, too, had been
s apprised when she heard the
story and went to Detroit to
’’prosecute’’ her spouse.